Interesting site

firefighter753 · 06-03-2007, 19:40

I don't know if this as already been posted but I found a nice site on the lancs county council website, its called mario viewer and you can look at new and old maps, aeriel photos including 1940's photos of all lancashire, I have just been looking at 1940 photos of Oswaldtwistle, my house was a field then, I have placed the link below, this is ten times better than google earth as it only concentrates on Lancs, again apologies if you are already aware of this site.

http://mario.lancashire.gov.uk/

grego · 06-03-2007, 19:49

Thanks for the link, will take a look.

LancYorkYankee · 07-03-2007, 02:45

Aye thanks firefighter. I hope life's been treating you okay as of late.

Brian

US Angel · 07-03-2007, 06:59

Thanks, found out there is a church next door to the Jenny???

WillowTheWhisp · 07-03-2007, 09:09

Yep, I've been there once - not sure it's still going though. Although it's not far from me I just never seem to go round there since not having a dog.

firefighter753 · 07-03-2007, 11:49

Broadway was alot different in the 1940's!

garinda · 07-03-2007, 11:58

Wow, the 1940's ariel photographs are ace.

Great link, thanks.

garinda · 07-03-2007, 12:00

The paths near the balling greens in Rhyddings Park are marked as 'Lovers Walk'.

Never heard that before.

firefighter753 · 07-03-2007, 18:06

Garinda, it looks like lovers walk is the overgrown path at the top of dene bank road that runs behind the tennis courts, from what i can make out on the 1940's photo's, I know we used to use it as kids but its now to overgrown for access.

yerself · 07-03-2007, 18:35

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Originally Posted by garinda

the balling greens in Rhyddings Park

Is this somewhere that men of a certain persuasion frequent? The last shouts of 'feet' and 'good wood' I heard, came from the bowling green.

West Ender · 07-03-2007, 22:48

I've just spent half an hour looking at West End in the 1940s and the later pictures. Our house, 361 Blackburn Rd., is clearly marked. Our garden seems to have disappeared (all those bulbs my dad planted and his greenhouse full of tomato plants and lettuces) into a path into the back field and the other fields where I played, around the school, are all built on.

Quite a nostalgia trip!

garinda · 07-03-2007, 23:54

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Originally Posted by yerself

Is this somewhere that men of a certain persuasion frequent? The last shouts of 'feet' and 'good wood' I heard, came from the bowling green.

Lol, I was in two minds if it was bowls or balls, but my porridge was sticking and I couldn't be bothered to check.

garinda · 07-03-2007, 23:57

I do wish they hadn't marked present day buildings on the 1940's ariel photographs. On the site of Hippings Primary School there was a big air raid complex, which I can just about remember playing in in the late sixties. Because the present school is outlined, you can't make anything of interest out.

firefighter753 · 08-03-2007, 09:15

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I do wish they hadn't marked present day buildings on the 1940's ariel photographs. On the site of Hippings Primary School there was a big air raid complex, which I can just about remember playing in in the late sixties. Because the present school is outlined, you can't make anything of interest out.

I also found this annoying, but if you look in the top left side you see were it says 'background maps' on and off, check the box off and it should solve the problem.

garinda · 08-03-2007, 09:36

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Originally Posted by firefighter753

I also found this annoying, but if you look in the top left side you see were it says 'background maps' on and off, check the box off and it should solve the problem.

Thanks for that.

Something else new to me is that on the the ordnance survey type map, the area that is now houses on Paddock Houses old playing fields, and going down to Ossy Mills, is called Dunnyshop, which I've never heard of.